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A REVIEW ON FORMULATIONS OF TRIKATU CHOORNA IN MANAGEMENT OF STHAULYA (OBESITY) MENTIONED IN BHARAT BHAISHAJYA RATNAKARA

Sheetal Thakkar* and Mangala Jadhav

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Abstract

India has an ancient heritage of traditional herbal medicine. Ayurvedic literature has a treasure of medicinal herbs in which Trikatu is very important drug. Trikatu is used as solo drug rarely, but it is an essential ingredient of numerous formulations and prescriptions of Ayurvedic medicine. Trikatu is a poly herbal preparation, It consists of three crude drugs namely maricha (Piper nigrum Linn.), Pippali (Piper longum Linn.) and Shunthi (Zingiber officinalis Rosc) in equal proportion. The disease Sthaulya is occurring due to the Kaphavardhaka Ahara and Vihara mentioned as Santarpaka Nidana like Atiguru, Atisnigdha, Atipichchhil, Atishita, Navanna-pana, Atinidra, Atiaasana, Avyayama etc, which vitiate Rasa Dhatvagni, Medadhatvagni, Kaphadosha and Vatadosha. Trikatu Churna having Ushna, Laghu, Ruksha Guna and Deepana, Kapha- Vatahara and Sthaulyahara Karma expected to increase the power of Rasa and Medadhatvagni, decrease in Kapha and Vata and thus decrease in further formation of Aama Medadhatu and its deposition in body results in improvement in Sthaulya. The objective of this article is to highlight different formulations of Trikatu and it's ingredients mentioned in Sthaulya/ medoroga in ancient Ayurvedic literature in special reference of Bharat Bhaishajya Ratnakara.

Keywords: Trikatu Choorna, Shunthi Choorna, Maricha Choorna, Pippali Choorna, Bharat Bhaishajya Ratnakara, Sthaulya, Obesity.